A Harper spokeswoman declined to comment on why Woodcock was no longer with the PMO.

“We do not comment on staffing,” Julie Vaux said in an email.

Woodcock is one of three senior PMO staffers named in court documents released earlier this month filed as part of an RCMP criminal investigation into the $90,000 payment Harper’s former chief of staff Nigel Wright made to Duffy. According to the documents, Wright’s lawyers told investigators in a letter that Woodcock, as well as the executive assistant to the chief of staff David van Hemmen and one-time legal advisor Benjamin Perrin were informed about the payment plan.